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Originally Posted by blankall
There has never been any debate about full sharia law. The Sharia courts would be more or less limited to family law matters. Similar courts had been running in Ontario for both Jews and Catholics for decades. The potential Sharia courts were strongly opposed by various feminist groups. The end result was that all religious courts were banned in Ontario. Not sure what the status is in the rest of the country. You can still get parts of Sharia law through arbitrators though. This requires both parties consent ahead of time. Also, the arbitration cannot result in anything that would illegal. ex. cutting off people's hands.
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The latter sounds all fine and dandy, however the ultimate evil of allowing this in Canada to settle even family law disputes is that ultimately muslim women end up getting mistreated. This is why feminists argue against this. In muslim communities in Canada often the only people a woman knows is her family and other members of the Muslim community. Should she not want to participate in a Sharia-based arbitration, she could end up being shunned by her family, her friends, and her mosque. So when both parties consent there's a hidden motivation for the woman to consent to a Sharia-based tribunal even if she wished to be in front of Canadian courts.